Crater of Volcano, Quetzaltenango-Guatemala
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 5 3/8 × 9 1/16 in. (13.7 × 23 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Sam Salz Foundation Gift, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.780
Tags
Art Historical Context
Eadweard Muybridge *Crater of Volcano,etzaltenango-Guatemala (1875) captures the raw power of Central America's volcanic landscapes with striking clarity. Taken during Muybridge's travels through Guatemala, this albumen silver print from a glass negative showcases the artist's early mastery of photography as a tool for documenting the natural world. Best known today for his pioneering motion studies, Muybridge here turned his lens to panoramic vistas, blending scientific precision with aesthetic drama to the sublime beauty—and peril—of active volcanoes. The albumen process, popular in the 19t...
About the Artist
Eadweard Muybridge · 1830–1904
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was an English-American photographer who revolutionized the understanding of motion through his pioneering chronophotographic studies. Born Edward James Muggeridge in Kingston upon Thames, England, he emigrated to America and became famous first for his dramatic landscape photographs of Yosemite Valley, then for his groundbreaking motion studies that proved horses li...